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How could the new tablet work with a iphone

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carson44

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So from the engadget report today saying the new apple tablet could be some kind of apple tv or gaming device. what i want to know is what way do u think that the new tablet could work with the iphone...

I think that it would be cool if you could connect the tablet to your tv and play iphone games and use the iphone as a controller, and the display the tablet or a tv.

So what do you think apple could do with it?
 
Apple could do anything. It will most def. work with an iPhone, playing iPhone games seems a stretch though as that would be a nightmare for developers.
 
carson44 said:
So from the engadget report today saying the new apple tablet could be some kind of apple tv or gaming device. what i want to know is what way do u think that the new tablet could work with the iphone...

I think that it would be cool if you could connect the tablet to your tv and play iphone games and use the iphone as a controller, and the display the tablet or a tv.

So what do you think apple could do with it?
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I don't think it will be an "apple tv." I think it just might have an app that lets you control an apple tv, same as the "remote" app that already exists for iphone. I also don't think it will be a thing you hook up to a tv any more than is an iphone. (That is, it will be possible to hook it to a tv, but no one will, and that won't be the point of it.)
 
thegoldenmackid said:
Apple could do anything. It will most def. work with an iPhone, playing iPhone games seems a stretch though as that would be a nightmare for developers.
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Not really. Two possibilities:

1) it runs the iPhone OS. Problematic, primarily because resolution will undoubtedly be different, and few of us developers check the resolution. However, Apple could easily add a flag that allows us to say "use the highest resolution" and, if the flag isn't set, it could either scale, or play in a window.

2) it runs the macos (or a variant). if so, it could come with software equivalent to the iphone simulator developers already use.

jmann said:
I think they will be able to coincide and do different things for each other. Or perhaps the iPhone could be like an extension to the functionality of a Tablet.
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Yuck. Palm almost put itself out of business with a similar scheme.
 
Nope, doesn't work with it.


I have it right now and it definitely doesn't work with my phone, or anything else for that matter...












because it doesn't exist. I hear it will be unicorn compatible though.
 
cmaier said:
Not really. Two possibilities:

1) it runs the iPhone OS. Problematic, primarily because resolution will undoubtedly be different, and few of us developers check the resolution. However, Apple could easily add a flag that allows us to say "use the highest resolution" and, if the flag isn't set, it could either scale, or play in a window.

2) it runs the macos (or a variant). if so, it could come with software equivalent to the iphone simulator developers already use.
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How in the world is iBowl going to work with a tablet. Anything that use accelerometer is going to be shot. I understand that it would likely feature it, but bowling with a one-handed 3.5" screen and a two handed 9" screen are rather different.
 
thegoldenmackid said:
How in the world is iBowl going to work with a tablet. Anything that use accelerometer is going to be shot. I understand that it would likely feature it, but bowling with a one-handed 3.5" screen and a two handed 9" screen are rather different.
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That's assuming there won't be an accelerometer in the device. I could totally see it, the size of an 8.5x11 piece of paper, you turn if you want landscape. Regardless, I don't see that the iPhone & tablet integration would be any greater that iPhone/any mac computer integration would be.
 
ian.maffett said:
Of course there will be an accelerometer in it - there is one in your MacBookPro, even.
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Well, that's a little different...the sensors in the MBP are for detecting free fall so it can lock the hard drive to avoid damage; I'm not sure that they can actually be used to detect orientation the same way the iPhone does.
 
Interstella5555 said:
That's assuming there won't be an accelerometer in the device. I could totally see it, the size of an 8.5x11 piece of paper, you turn if you want landscape. Regardless, I don't see that the iPhone & tablet integration would be any greater that iPhone/any mac computer integration would be.
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No, I specifically said it would have it. Outside of Labyrinth iPhone games that use accelerometer are going to be screwed.
 
Interstella5555 said:
Well, that's a little different...the sensors in the MBP are for detecting free fall so it can lock the hard drive to avoid damage; I'm not sure that they can actually be used to detect orientation the same way the iPhone does.
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If I recall correctly, there was some dude some time back that wrote a simple game and used the sensor as an input device like that.
 
cmaier said:
If I recall correctly, there was some dude some time back that wrote a simple game and used the sensor as an input device like that.
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There are actually several apps to take advantage of this. I have about 5 installed just to play with. Nothing overly useful, of course, but fun nonetheless. :)
iAlertU is pretty cool, novelty wise.
 
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